jameswei
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| Bright / forward speaker cables. Conventional wisdom suggests silver conductor speaker cables should sound brighter. My Audioquest Dragon sounds noticeably brighter than my Cardas Golden Cross. As Sean pointed out, cable sound is very system dependent. The Cable Company at www.fa... | |
| wall to wall rug or linolium floor with area rug? The puppy paws will spike through carpeting and insulation so your speakers will be solidly resting on your underlayment, presumably plywood flooring. They will also spike through your linoleum (if not immediately, then still relatively soon), so ... | |
| Horrific Confession And Puzzling Questions We started doing this in college when the record companies would put one or two hits on an album then load up the rest of it with crap. You know what you want to hear, play it, then go to another album. Perfectly rational.Classical is a little mor... | |
| In the last 20-30 years, what has changed most... Couple different things going on here. First, both amps and preamps have made important progress, but in different directions. Amps sound better now. Preamps do more/different things now. From purely a sound perspective, I'd vote for amps having m... | |
| What's the difference between 33 1/3 60 vs 50 Hz? Strobe discs are typically used with some kind of an electric light powered by AC current. Flashlights won't work, and most users do not pay up for a calibrated strobe flasher. The AC-powered electric light will flutter or blink at twice the AC fr... | |
| Recycling old designs ??? It does appear that we are recycling old designs.Sometimes there are only a certain number of ways to achieve a design goal, e.g., 360 degree dispersion. Also, old designs aren't necessarily inferior to modern ones. We all know new designs often g... | |
| Two subwoofers?? I've got a pair of Sunfire True Sub Signatures in my main system. I'm using them stacked, along a wall. I have adjusted the phase of one of them by ear to avoid cancellation with my main speakers. I've set the phase of the other one to be identica... | |
| EMC 24/192 or Mark Levinson 39. The ML 39 is upgradeable to the 390s, which sounds audibly better. We've talked about this on other threads. | |
| Danceable jazz recordings, any recommendations? I assume you know one of my all time favorite cuts, Charles Earland's "More Today than Yesterday" on Black Talk!Some of my other favorite cuts (maybe you would like the rest of these CDs, too): Thom Rotella "What's the Story" on Can't Stop; Grover... | |
| Other hobbies with these economics? Photography/Cameras. See Audiogon's sister site. | |
| Any source to acquire high quality L-shape RCA? You might want to consider a T-shaped splitter. Monster makes one for sale at Audio Advisor. Jerry Raskins Needle Doctor has one, too. The top crossbar of the T has a male at one end and a female at the other. The vertical leg of the T is a female... | |
| Need help from Wadia and ML CD player owners I like the 390s and prefer its more dynamic sound versus the 39. The volume control is analog which is better than digital. There are a number of cd players with digital controls in your price range, many from mid-fi manufacturers, but I am not aw... | |
| DVD/SACD on the Verge? The general public is still not really aware that the CD format is being superceded. For most people, when their CD player breaks or they need a new one for a student, they go to the store and are then taught about SACD and DVD-A. They have to be ... | |
| Quiet fan to cool amp and preamp? Radio Shack sells whisper fans for equipment. They usually come with bare leads, so you can wire them into a switched circuit or insert an in-line switch between the fan and a plug. The size and volume of air moved by the fan should be determined ... | |
| Most compelling vocal you discovered in a movie? Two schmaltz nominations: "It Had to Be You" by Harry Connick Jr from When Harry Met Sally, and "The Sound of Music" by Julie Andrews from the movie. A sentimental favorite: "The Look of Love" by Dusty Springfield from Casino Royale. |